Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
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| • | Odinga Says Mugabe Needs Peaceful Exit to End Crisis: Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga said on Wednesday that Robert Mugabe may need to be allowed a "peaceful, decent exit" to resolve Zimbabwe's political crisis.
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| • | Mount Elgon Displaced Returning Home: Florence Chepkemoi lives in the western district of Mt Elgon. She lost her husband in the land clashes that erupted in September 2006. She talked to IRIN about her experiences during and after the conflict which pitted two communities of same clan...
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| • | Livestock Disease, High Prices Fuelling Food Insecurity: Recurrent outbreaks of the viral livestock disease peste des petits ruminants (PPR), which affects goats and sheep, are exacerbating poor food security in the mainly pastoralist Turkana region of northwestern Kenya.
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| • | How Mock Exams Ignited Violence: Last Friday, students of Kuoyo Kochia Secondary School in Homa Bay District damaged their school after objecting to being frisked before entering the examination room.
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| • | A Hospital That is an Oasis of Hope for Many: Driving past Limuru on the Nakuru-Nairobi highway, the road opens up to a viewpoint of the Great Rift Valley escarpment.
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| • | We Will Never Go Back to Violent Ways, Vows PM: Prime Minister Raila Odinga has vowed that never again shall Kenya descend into the orgy of violence that rocked the country after the disputed presidential election results.
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| • | PNU Shelves Proposal to Absorb Affiliates: Dissenting parties within PNU scored a major victory Tuesday after a proposal to dissolve affiliate parties and merge them into one was shelved.
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| • | Human Rights Team - Evictions Pre-Planned: The violent evictions in Rift Valley Province were well-coordinated and heavily funded, a human rights body has said.
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| • | Tough New Rules to Curb School Strikes: The Government Tuesday imposed tough rules aimed at ending the ongoing riots and destruction of property in schools.
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| • | Team Told of Mungiki Visit to State House: Members of the outlawed Mungiki sect are said to have visited State House in the wake of post-election violence, the Waki Commission heard Tuesday.
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